Student Grants Hiked $139M

Cabinet is expanding post-secondary grants to students by $138.6 million a year after citing rising defaults under its repayable Canada Student Loan program. Write-offs of unpaid loans cost $354.4 million in the past two years: “I hope we’re not going to see the write-offs increase as we expand the grant system.”

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